VDGG 70S-REUNION ALBUMS REISSUED

Frontman Peter Hammill reflects on a time of creative intensity and live ferocity.

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Following in the wake of last year’s mammoth 14-disc box set, Interference Patterns, Esoteric dip back into the Van der Graaf Generator vaults with reissues of Still Life and Vital, due on March 29. Initially released in 1976, Still Life was VdGG’s second studio album after the band reformed to record Godbluff the previous year. Both of the reissues have been remastered and the former will be released on vinyl only, while Vital will be available on double vinyl and CD editions. “The stars aligned for us. We felt there was work to be done,” says Peter Hammill about the 1975 reunion. “It was a headlong period. Van der Graaf were always a slightly bizarre ongoing movie, but we were probably at our peak in this period. We were touring…

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